The Punjab Government has decided to convert 17,299 more classrooms of 12,507 Government schools in the State into smart classrooms, besides transforming 24 rooms of 22 District Institute of Education and Training (DIETs) into smart training rooms.
An amount of Rs 117 crore would be spent for transformation of these training and class rooms, said the state School Education Minister Vijay Inder Singla on Wednesday.
Singla said that the Education Department will be installing multimedia projector, micro CPU, sound bar, white board for projection, and green board for writing in the smart classrooms.
“The Congress Government is committed to uplift the standard of education of government schools and to fulfill the commitment, required funds are being allotted to the schools to improve the basic infrastructure. That apart from the improvement in the infrastructure facilities, few path-breaking initiatives like online teacher transfer policy, smart schools policy, pre-primary education, digital education and special cadre of teachers working in border areas, which have also led to remarkable improvement in the quality of education across the State,” he said.
Singla said that the detailed instructions have already been issued to the District Education Officers and school heads regarding the installation of new gadgets in the smart classrooms and have been directed to ensure proper availability of power and other resources in the classrooms.